Gautama Siddhartha
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Siddartha was a great teacher of the 6th century BC, the son of an unimportant chieftain who ruled in a valley of the Himalayas
His conversion to his new ideals occurred suddenly (100:5.3)
Followers
- Gautama forbade his disciples to receive money to avoid hierarchical tendencies 94:8.19
- later Buddhist worship perverted his teachings and turned him into a divine personage 92:5.12 (94:11.2,9)
- Gautama's wife believed in her husband's gospel and she was the founder of an order of nuns 94:7.6
- His son became his successor and greatly spread the cult 94:7.6
- The spiritual awakening of the sixth century did not survive in India and had almost disappeared by the time of the Muslim invasion 79:4.8
Strengths
- brought succor to millions of despairing souls 94:7.7
- his life was much greater than his preachment 94:8.19
- he was an outstanding religious teacher 121:6.4
- he taught the best godless philosophy ever invented 94:8.18
- he taught universal salvation, free from sacrifices, rituals and priests 94:7.7
Weaknesses
- failed to perceive the personality of God and the existence of souls 94:7.3
- Buddha directed his ship of salvation directly towards the safe harbor, to the entrance of the creek of salvation of mortals, but there, due to wrong navigational charts, the good ship ran aground 132:7.4
- He hardly believed in the immortality of the human personality 94:8.16
- Buddha was a great man and even a prophet to his people, but he was an orphaned prophet. He knew God in spirit, but not with the mind 132:7.3-5
- he should have listened to the hermit Godad, a Salemite who passed on the Salem teachings to him 94:7.4
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Gautama Siddhartha is linked in 10 paragraphs of the text.
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Categories: People and personalities · Paper 94